Stopgap funding / CR on it's way

Per normal, the US govt will likely jam through another continuing resolution to fund their sinful natures for a few weeks / months. This crap happens about every 90 - 120 days, and in particular it always seems to roll around the Christmas holidays. " OMG, nobody'll get their checks ". Routine fearmongering regarding the impending govt. shutdown threat is alive and well / ongoing as usual. What's more likely is yet another CR..and anybody paying a historical modicum of attention is aware of that. There's been a few shutdowns, sure ( 30 - 35 days is the longest, I think); most only ensued for two or three days and the actual sufferage was no where near the prognostications about it ( not a single SSI check has ever failed to arrive, for instance, during these shutdowns). These politicians like to use the shutdown threat on and from both sides, but they don't care to live with the outrage ensuing from the public when it is shut down. They'll all coalesce and cave in pretty short order and then head home for Christmas, the damned bobbleheads from hell.

To distract all the rebels without causes just before Christmas, check this out ( or not, if you're too bound up with all the govt funding issues and just can't relax, etc)..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYO8mrsgw9g

The early part of the vocal intro in the above music video sounds like McConnell and Schumer spewing their routine babblefest " a dooby-dooby-doo-wahh, boogie woogie choo choo train)..etc

You're dead wrong with your implication that a government shutdown is no big deal because people still get their government checks. Much more than that is affected. Government services, such as the post office, are suspended. Government properties, such as national parks, are shut down and become inaccessible. Government agencies, such as the FDA and EPA, shut down.

The Republicans LUVVV shutdowns, because their professed goal is no government (or as little as possible, or Emperor Trump).  Your rhetoric shows that you regard government spending---ANY spending--as intrinsically bad. The less gummint, duh better, the goobers say.

I've found, though, that even the troo-bloo MAGAs aren't honest about this. They approve of government...when it does what THEY want. They approve of spending...to meet THEIR goals. That's why, during the Turd administration, they howled about the Child Tax Credit but enthusiastically supported Trump's $400 billion border wall.

I know it's popular to deride ALL government spending as wasteful, but that's simply ridiculous. As well as STOOOOPID.

Didn't say govt shutdowns don't have implications / consequences. It's long odds that these shutdowns last over two three days ( historically based), though. You're right about one thing..spending am bad ( overspending). So, you're not a complete and utter train wreck.

All that was for nothing. Trump didn't get the debt ceiling removal he wanted.  Trump and Leon are such drama queens. 

the post office never shuts down  for a spending bill, never has.  And they still don't have a wage contract since may of 23.  They are being offered a 1.3 percent raise.    In our area they have a 9 oclock rule.If you can't get everything delivered in 12.5 hours bring everything back to the office by 9 pm.  Thank god for global warming because it gets cold as shit once the sun goes down!

Congress passes the legislation to spend money.....then we have to have a debate as to whether or not we will actually pay the bills that result.    Its stupid.   Thats true when a Democrat is in the White House....and its true when a Republican is in the White House.

The debate should be whether or not to spend the money - not whether or not to pay the invoices that result.

And since you're a good little MAGA, I'm sure you define "overspending" as "spending on anything I don't want, or don't approve of, or doesn't directly benefit me."

Right?

Well, absolutely, Mr CurlyCue CocoaPuff... there are govt spending items I wholeheartedly disagree with. For example... 

-Dept. of Interior spending $12M on a Las Vegas pickleball complex;

-Health and Human Services (HHS) spending $2 M to study kids looking at Facebook food ads;

-HHS spending $419K to determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats;

-Dept of Energy ( DOE) spent $15.5 B to push Americans toward EV's they apparently don't want right now based on poor overall sales figures;

-The Dept. of State (DOS)spent $4.8 M on Ukrainian social media influencers;

-The DOS  spent $3 M for "Girl-Centered Climate Change" in Brazil;

-American taxpayers are paying $892 B on our national debt interest alone in FY 2024;

-The Dept of Defense (DOD) spent $10 M on Orwellian cat experiments; 

-The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded the Bearded Ladies Cabaret a $10 K grant to support a cabaret show on ice skates focused on climate change;

-The DOS allocated $32.6 K for breakdancing;

-Improper Medicare payments totaling $25.6 B ;

-Earmarks 'add-on' appropriations bills; Democrats $12.4 B / Republicans $8.9 B ( both party's abuse is inexcusable)

There's much, much more..but that's some of the superficial dermis of it. If you search enough, I'll bet even you as a spendaholic liberal can find things you deem wasteful, fraudulent, and or useless. There's bound to be a jackass R senator / House rep that slated some money for something you can't stand..like ..conservative censorship remediation, perhaps? Who knows.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REPORT-2024.pdf

https://www.cagw.org/sites/default/files/pdf/CAGW_PigBook_2024.pdf

Kevin explained to us about a year ago that federal government borrowing was a good idea.  He argued that interest rates were so cheap that this makes sense.  He will deny this, because he's not honest, but this is the truth.  Now, 21% of all goverment spending is on interest.  Liberals alway talk about sustainability, until the subject is government spending.  Our current government spending us unsustainable.

More of Boiler's "put words in his mouth" shit. To respond to his lies, I REITERATE that borrowing makes perfect sense when the interest rate paid matches or is less than inflation.

This is waasaay beyond Boiler's comprehension.